Animation shows U.S. strategy for advances against Japanese in the Solomon Islands, and beyond, emanating from bases on Guadalcanal. The remote island of Rendova. U.S. Army, Marine, and Seabee units landing on Rendova. A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber flies very low over the landing party. LVTs are seen (Landing Vehicle Track). Scenes of dense jungle. Large amounts of supplies are unloaded on the beachhead. U.S. troops set up antiaircraft guns on the beachhead. A formation of 4 Japanese dive bombers approaches. They peel off and attack. Fires burn from Japanese bombing. U.S. casualties being treated at the beachhead. U.S. marines exchange fire with Japanese snipers in dense jungle. Several dead Japanese soldiers. LSTs (Landing ship Tank) arrive at beachhead, carrying heavy armor and construction equipment. Seabees operating bulldozers on the island. 155 mm guns are pulled through the jungle, emplaced, and commence firing.
Soldiers and civilians stand outside a recruiting building. Recruits in civilian dress. Soldiers and civilians carrying bags as they enter the recruiting building. Recruits come out of the building carrying duffel bags. Few of them wear French helmets. Recruits with French helmet pass as they come out door. French colonial black African troops along with rifles. French colonial African troops drill and present arms. Troops at attention. Pack animals and troops being inspected by officers. Troops march in column. Column of pack animals on march. Troops march along boulevard. Officer talks to soldiers.
German Messerschmitt Bf 109 taxis past camera as formation of Dornier Do-17 bombers takes off. The bombers underway in formation. Complete change of scene shows German gun camera view of an American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft being shot to pieces in a head-on attack. A formation of U.S. Army Air Force B-17 aircraft being attacked by German Luftwaffe fighters. One B-17, alone, in trouble, is fired upon while descending. View of German DO-17s in formation. German gun camera film aerial dogfight with American B-17 being attacked from ahead and below. Pieces of the B-17 falling away.
Damage caused at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Smoke rising from burning aircraft along the flight line. Damaged aircraft parts on flight line. Vietnamese Air Force personnel move near the aircraft. U.S. Air Force A-1E's and other planes being taxied to safety.
Aerial view of many USAAF Troop Carrier Command C-47 aircraft,together with gliders, parked on a field in England. The aircraft and gliders are all painted in D-Day stripes. Views on ground of C-47s taking off towing gliders behind. Formation of C-47s and gliders overhead. Views from an aircraft in a formation. Below, the Portland Bill lighthouse & directional beacon (code-named Flatbush) is seen as the formation departs the English coast. (Note: film view of Portland Bill light is reversed. Roundabout should appear to right of the lighthouse.) Closeup of a glider in the formation. View from a ship, in the English Channel, as an airplane crashes and explodes on the French coast. Aerial view of landing craft on the Normandy beach, as the formation passes overhead. View of French fields flooded by the Germans. Aerial view of parachutes from U.S. Army paratroopers who had dropped into France the night before (June 5th), but no sign of the troops themselves. Masses of gliders on the ground. View inside a glider as it cuts loose from its C-47 tow plane. View from ground as gliders cut loose and maneuver for landing. View of a glider that crashed into a German Headquarters building, and view of another landing in water. Allied gliders destroyed (some burning) and damaged by German gunfire and passive defenses (15 foot poles planted closely in landing zones). A German artillery piece concealed at the edge of a landing zone. American troops, from the gliders, marching into Saint Marcouf, France. Montage of Allied advances and gunfire. Road sign pointing to Sainte Marie-du Mont and Carentan. U.S. troops moving through French town of Sainte Marie-du Monte. U.S. troops riding in a captured German Ketenkrad tracked motorcycle.
French Union Forces in strategic North-West delta region spearhead a counter-attack against Communist forces in Indochina (Vietnam). Airplane in flight over the field. Firing and bombarding on the field. Smoke arises due to bombarding. Trees and mountains in background. Military vehicles move on the field. The wounded soldiers are evacuated in boats. Soldiers fire artillery.
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